This is true. Greece and Turkey are big costumers of the US. If I recall correctly, they are right behind alot of really big other nations like India I think (which is really weird considering the size of our nations). Anyway, the point is that it looks like it is in the best of interest of the arms business (therefore the CIA and the US's political standpoint also) that both Greece and Turkey be paranoid of each other. Now that Greece and Turkey are getting along fine, it looks like they are creating other problems so we can worry about and buy weapons instead of sizing down on our useless stockpile of weapon systems. I really wish our goverments could see this clearer, but who knows what sort of games are being played behind our backs...
Anyway, the Macedonian thema consists of alot of propaganda. Just as the people of F.Y.R.O.M. want to be recognized as the true Macedonians, there is a big number of people in Greece, that live in Macedonia(Greece) and also claim they are Macedonians (but beleive that Macedonians where always Greeks and they are _NOT_ a Macedonian-F.Y.R.O.M.ian minority as the US state department falsely stated in one of their reports). I'm sure in Bulgaria the same goes. So, naming F.Y.R.O.M. Macedonia could end up being a BIG DEAL. As it _IS_ unfair to dictate to the F.Y.R.O.M.ians what they are, it _IS ALSO_ unfair to dictate to people in Greece or Bulgaria that they are not Macedonian when their beleif of what Macedonian means is completely different. So things are not as simple as "Greece won't recognize F.Y.R.O.M. as Republic of Macedonia". I would like to discuss replies to this.:)
That's a good thing. You should see these Brit girls party down here in Greece! They're awesome... [Ahem...] Of course as a geek I wouldn't know any further...:)
*Runs away in fear of having his geek ID revoked!*
This is exactly what I see happening also. As long as they control the format, it's their game. Office always has the time advantage. Never mind any patent issues that are unclear. Basiclly if MS wanted an open format, one already exists (ODF), but this is not the case. I couldn't blame them though. If I lacked innovation this is exactly the stuff I would be focused on also. I give them 5 years. After that it's catch up with OSS...
..are you a script? Maybe he is and they're just conducting some sort of a Turing Test...
Oh, and "mumble" was the word I had to type in to pass _my_ Turing Test as AC. How appropriate.:)
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This is true. Greece and Turkey are big costumers of the US. If I recall correctly, they are right behind alot of really big other nations like India I think (which is really weird considering the size of our nations). Anyway, the point is that it looks like it is in the best of interest of the arms business (therefore the CIA and the US's political standpoint also) that both Greece and Turkey be paranoid of each other. Now that Greece and Turkey are getting along fine, it looks like they are creating other problems so we can worry about and buy weapons instead of sizing down on our useless stockpile of weapon systems. I really wish our goverments could see this clearer, but who knows what sort of games are being played behind our backs...
Which translates to ServiceForCoordinatingFightingFraud.eu from greeklish! Really!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece) Alot of political games are played in the Balkans...
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Anyway, the Macedonian thema consists of alot of propaganda. Just as the people of F.Y.R.O.M. want to be recognized as the true Macedonians, there is a big number of people in Greece, that live in Macedonia(Greece) and also claim they are Macedonians (but beleive that Macedonians where always Greeks and they are _NOT_ a Macedonian-F.Y.R.O.M.ian minority as the US state department falsely stated in one of their reports). I'm sure in Bulgaria the same goes. So, naming F.Y.R.O.M. Macedonia could end up being a BIG DEAL. As it _IS_ unfair to dictate to the F.Y.R.O.M.ians what they are, it _IS ALSO_ unfair to dictate to people in Greece or Bulgaria that they are not Macedonian when their beleif of what Macedonian means is completely different. So things are not as simple as "Greece won't recognize F.Y.R.O.M. as Republic of Macedonia". I would like to discuss replies to this.
That's a good thing. You should see these Brit girls party down here in Greece! They're awesome... [Ahem...] Of course as a geek I wouldn't know any further... :)
*Runs away in fear of having his geek ID revoked!*
This is exactly what I see happening also. As long as they control the format, it's their game. Office always has the time advantage. Never mind any patent issues that are unclear. Basiclly if MS wanted an open format, one already exists (ODF), but this is not the case. I couldn't blame them though. If I lacked innovation this is exactly the stuff I would be focused on also. I give them 5 years. After that it's catch up with OSS...
"The blood thirstiest, shoot 'em firstiest, doggone worstiest buccanneer that ever sailed the Spanish main.cpp"
..are you a script? Maybe he is and they're just conducting some sort of a Turing Test... Oh, and "mumble" was the word I had to type in to pass _my_ Turing Test as AC. How appropriate.:)